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Border and Immigration Agency Information concerning the cost of Christmas cards for previous years is not known centrally and would be available only at disproportionate cost.
| Identity and Passport Service | |
| £ | |
| (1 )No information held centrally | |
| Criminal Records Bureau | |
| £ | |
(b) There are no figures relating to Christmas parties—any parties attended are entirely at the cost of the staff member / individual.
(c) The costs for Christmas decorations over the last five years are as follows:
| Home Office | |
| £ | |
| (1 )no information held centrally (2 )at 2 Marsham street (3 )at 2 Marsham street—they were provided on a complementary basis from our property services company Ecovert FM | |
Border and Immigration Agency / Criminal Records Bureau
Information concerning the cost of decorations to the Border and Immigration Agency and Criminal Records Bureau over the past five years is not known centrally and would be available only at disproportionate cost.
Spend on decorations during the last five years is unavailable but it has been a nominal amount.
Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her Department’s policy is on the selection of (a) real and (b) artificial Christmas trees for her Department’s festive decorations; and how real trees are disposed of. [173526]
Mr. Byrne: The Home Office believes that marking Christmas is important. The Department does not have a central policy on the selection of Christmas trees. Arrangements for purchasing both real and artificial trees are made locally. In terms of disposal, procedures vary according to the waste contract in operation at particular buildings but at our London headquarters building in 2 Marsham street, for example, the trees are chipped and added to a composting facility for later re-use.
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on (a) Christmas cards and (b) postage of Christmas cards in 2007. [176918]
Mr. Byrne: The Home Office believes that marking Christmas is important.
(a) Spend on Christmas Cards in 2007 is as follows:
The Home Office (including Border and Immigration Agency)—£4,724.72
Identity and Passport Service—£1,000 to date
Criminal Records Bureau—£757.76
(b) Spend on postage of Christmas cards is not separated from spend of all Home Office mail and is therefore not calculable.
Community Policing: Manpower
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers (a) were recruited and (b) retired due to (i) age and (ii) sickness in each police force area in each year since 2002. [176319]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is shown in the following tables.
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